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WEIGHING SCOOP. No. 598,406.

APatented Feb. 1, 1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. IVITHROV, OF APPALACHICOLA, FLORIDA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND WILLIAM HENRY THEOBALD, OF SAME PLACE.

WEIGHING-SCOOP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598,406, dated February 1, 1898. Application filed Tune 25, 1897. Serial No. 642,303. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. WITHRow, of Appalachicola, in the county of Franklin and State of Florida, have invented a new and Improved Weighing-Scoop, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is a weighing-scoop having a handle portion and a pan, the former supporting scale mechanism and the latter having connection with the scale mechanism, so that goods placed in the pan will have their weight indicated by the scale mechanism.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, while the claims define the actual scope of the conception.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention with the top of the scale-casing removed..

' Fig. 2 is a plan view of said top of the scalecasing. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1 with certain parts omitted, and Fig. 6 is a detail section showing the carriage on the arbor of the indicator-hand.

The handle or main portion 10 has a scalecasing 11 secured thereon, said casing 11 having a snugly-fitting top 12 with a dial-face 13, over which plays an indicator-hand 14, carried on the arbor 15. The bottom of the casing 11 has a sunken portion 16, on which the major portion of the scale mechanism is carried, and the handle or main portion has skirts 17, forming a downwardly-opening cavity, receiving the upper portion of the pan 18. The pan 18 has an angular brace-plate 19 at its upper rear portion, such brace-plate 19 serving to bear snugly against the under face of the sunken portion 16 of the casing 11 and against the front extremity of the handle portion 10, whereby the pan 18 is held firmly in its upper position-that is, the position which the pan assumes when loaded.

Attached to each side of the pan 18 are two cleats 20, each having a link 2l pivoted thereto. Each link 21 has an eye atits upper end,

and said links respectively receive in their eyes knife-edges carried by the respective arms 22. The arms 22 are arranged in pairs, the members of which are rigidly connected with each other by beams 23. This connection is effected through the medium of knifeedges 24, one for each arm 22. The knifeedges 24 respectively roll in bearings 25, which rest on the braced bottom 16 of the casing 11. The bearings 25 are rigidly connected in pairs by means of two plates 26, respectively secured rigidly against the inner faces of the sides of the casing 11. The plates 26 are visible in plan in Fig. l. In Fig. 3 the plate 26 nearest the line of section is removed, together with the two bearings 25 that are attached to said plate, but the far bearings 25 and the plate 26 thereof are visible in Fig. 3. The same is true of Fig. 5, the far bearings 25 and the plate 26 thereof being shown and the :near bearings being left out of view in the interest of clearness.

Each beam 23, with its' arms 22, forms a lever rocking on a fulcrum formed by the knifeedges 24. The intermediate portion of each beam 23 has a link 27 pivoted to each side thereof, and said links have their upper ends pivoted to a carriage 28, sliding vertically on the arbor 15. The carriage 28 has a rigid hanging frame 29 with inwardly-projecting pins 30, as best shown in Fig. 6, and bearing on the pins 30 is the free end of a scroll-spring` 3l, held on an angular frame -plate 32 by means of the block and an adjustable plate 34. Through these devices the tension of the spring 31 may be regulated. The spring 31 normally lifts the pan 18 to the position shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. Weight placed in the pan 18 will depress said pan, causing the arms 22 to swing down, which throws up the carriage 28 and raises the free end of the spring 31, such movement being against the tendency of said spring.

Mounted on the raised portion of the bottom of the casing 11 are two stanchions 35, which carry a rock-shaft 36, said shaft being held in a normal position by a volute spring 37. Fixed to the shaft 36 is a forked arm 38, the fork of the arm 38 spanning the carriage 28 and the link 27. Each end of the fork of looy the arm 38 is pivoted to a link 39, said links being respectively pivoted to the sides of the carriage 28. lMovement of the carriage upward will lift the arm 38 and rock the shaft 36 against the tension of the spring 37. Fixed to the shaft 36 is a second arm 40, which carries at its free end a block 41, to which alink 42 is pivoted. The link 42 is in turn pivoted to an arm 43, carried on a rock-shaft 44, mounted on the depressed bottom 16 of the casing 11. Fixed to the `rock-shaft 44 is an arm 4,5, which carries a segmental gear 46, meshing with apinion 47, fixed on the arbor 15. By these means the arbor 15 is turned, and con: sequently the indicator 14 is made to play over the-dial 13. The upper portion of the arbor 15 is held in a bearing 48, supported by arms 49, secured to the sides of thefca'sing 11. The arms 49 are shown inV plan in Fig. 1 and are shown broken away in Figs. 3.andv 5.

As the carriage 28 moves vertically on the arbor 15 the shaft 36 is caused to rock, and this movement of the shaft 36 imparts a swinging movement to the arm 45 and its sector 46, which in turn rotates the arbor 15. A proper adjustment of the partswill cause thel indicator 14 to show the weightV of the material. contained vwithin the pan 18.

A thumb-plate 50, attached to the rear porf tion of the pan 18, enables the pan to be held. rigidly if it is not desired to operate the Weighing devices.

This weighing-scoop may be constructed in various-sizes for use in the household, in hotels, and warehouses, and by retail kmerchants or ,others forweighing wheat, coal, or anyiar# ticle desired.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and minor detailsof my invention lmay be resortedto withouudeparting from the spirit andscope thereof. Hence Ido not, consider myself limited to the precise construction herein shown, but` believe that I am entitled to all such variations as com eiwithin the terms."

0f my Claims.

Having thus described my invention, I`

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination of a main or handle portion, a pan, a spring carried by the main vor handle portion, a carriage pressed by the 1 spring, anda connection between the pan and carriage,whereby to move the carriage againstV the tensionofthe spring, a rock-shaft having connection withy and rocked by the carriage,

an indicator, and, gearing including a sector and pinion, by which the indicator is oper ated from the rock-shaft.

2. The combination of a main or handle por,- tion, a pan, a .lever carried by the main or handle portion, a connection between the le-l ver andthe pan, a carriage to whichthe lever is connected, whereby the carriage is moved, a spring pressing the carriage, a rockshaft, a spring 'pressing the rock-shaft, an arm attached to the rock-shaft and connected with the carriage, a second arm attached to the rock-shaft, a second rock-shaft operated by the said second arm, a sector driven by the said second rock-shaft, an arbor, a gear iiXed to the arbor and meshed with the sec- 'is moved vas weight is applied to the pan, a

rock-shaft having connection with the caririage, a sector driven, by the rock-Shaft, and

an indicator controlled by the sector.

" 4. The combination of a frame-plate, a

block held by the frame-plate, an adjustable tension-plate carried on the frame-plate, and

a scroll-spring held inthe block andhaving one end engaged by the tension-plate.

The combination of two members, two levers fulcrumed on one member, each lever being formed with an intermediate beam with ran arm connected to each endl of the beam,

such connection beingv effected by knifeedges forming fulcrums on which the levers rock, connections between` one of said members and the levers, a carriage sliding on the member having the levers, 'a' connection between the levers and saidl carriage, a spring t pressing the carriage,an indicator, and means for operating said indicator from the movementof the carriage.' i

6. In a scoop, the combination of a main or handle portion, a pan, levers mount'ed'on themainor handle pcrtion andhaving connection with the f'pan, a hangingiframeconnected with the levers, aV carriage on which the hanging frame'is held', a spring carried by the main or handle portion and pressing the `hanging frame tdkeepthe'pan5 normally raised,'and indicator mechanism, operated from the carriage.

7. The combination of a main portion, a

lever mounted on the main porti'on,"a pan in connection with the lever, a carriage, vanhanging 'frame supported by the carriage and conlnectedlwith" the lever, a spring pressing the `hanging frame, and indicator mechanism operatedjfrom the carriage.

8. The combination of a ,spring-actuated rock-shaft, a carriage, an arm inv connection with the carriage and-with the rock-shaft to drive the rock-shaft from the carriage, a sec- `ond .arm attached to'the-rock-sha'ft," a second rock-shaft. having connection withv said sec- IOO IIO

ond arm and driven thereby, a sector'iiXed tothe second rock-shaft, and anl indicator `'driven by the sector.

9. The combination of a main portion, a se'- 'ries oflevers mounted thereon', apan in connection with and snpported bythe levers, an arbor carried on the main portion, a carriage sliding on the arbor, a frame in "connection ,with the carriage and with the levers, a spring pressing the frame whereby to hold the pan raised, a rock-shaft driven from the carriage, a second rock-shaft driven from the first rockshaft, an indicator, and gearing transmitting movement to the indicator from the said second rock-shaft.

lO. The combination of an arbor, a carriage sliding thereon, a1ever,a1nk connected to the lever and to the carriage, a frame han g# ing from the carriage, a spring bearing on the frame, and an indicator driven from the carto riage.

Jol-1N M. WITHRoW.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. THEOBALD, JAMES E. COTTER. 

